Coughlins are racing for cancer

Family gives $10 million toward OSU project

6:37 PM,
Jul. 4, 2013

Brutus Buckeye sits in one of the cars the Coughlin family's JEGS team will be racing at this weekend's Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk. The team was thanking construction workers during a break Tuesday at the new James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The Coughlin family recently gave $10 million to The Ohio State University Foundation to help with the project and cancer research.

Written by

Rob McCurdy
CentralOhio.com

Fresh off one win, Jeg Coughlin Jr. would like to be a part of another victory: ending cancer.

The four-time champion Pro Stock drag racer, in the midst of winning a fifth title in the NHRA, was in Columbus this week with the rest of his family for a rally at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center's $1 billion project.

The Coughlins were thanking construction workers for their part in building the new Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute that is scheduled to open in fall 2014. ...